The Ides: Caesar's Murder and the War for Rome by Stephen Dando-Collins

Author:Stephen Dando-Collins [Dando-Collins, Stephen]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Published: 2016-01-24T16:00:00+00:00

In Piso’s absence, Antony proposed to the Senate “that the body should not have a private or dishonorable interment,” on the grounds that this might “further exasperate the people.”² More than that, Antony proposed that Caesar’s funeral depart from Roman custom and be conducted within the city walls. In the same way that Roman priests were not permitted to touch the dead, funerals were normally banned from inside cities and towns for fear of polluting the abodes of the living. Similarly, all Roman crypts and tombs were outside built -up areas, usually lining the roads into metropolises.

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